[4] This John Croyston production was the fourth play out of ABC Brisbane, following Vacancy in Vaughan Street, Dark Brown and Ring Out Wild Bells.
He meets a spinster, Madge, likes her, but flees marriage, returns the next year more determined and finds her unhappily married to someone else, Bill Martin.
[5][1] Elaine Cusick was a Brisbane actress who had worked extensively in radio and theatre and was about to move on to Melbourne when the offer to appear in The Quiet Season was made.
Ultimately in Melbourne her appearances in TV productions included The Mystery of the Hansom Cab, The One Day of the Year and The Last Outlaw.
The story... is not wildly dramatic material, nor a new plot, but it has poignant, bitter sweet possibilities, and, for once, these were fully realised by the camera and the actors.
"[12] The National Archives of Australia hold a film copy of this TV short under the title Quiet Season (without the "the"), with 7 May 1965 given as the date, and a running time of 28:46, and notes it has been digitised.